I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability for both current and future patients.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

We certainly are not going to go backwards; at least certainly the majority in the United States Senate is not going to go backwards.

If you and your loved ones do not have your health, everything else goes by the board.

as long as I'm chairman of the Finance Committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

Unfortunately, not all Medicare Advantage is created equal.

none of us wants America to return to that time.

We worked really hard together on the Safer Communities Act, and really have the most, the strongest investment in mental health and addiction services literally in 50 years.

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the Federal deficit are not mutually exclusive.

If Republicans go after Medicaid the way they did in 2017 by cutting Federal support to State Medicaid programs... that guaranteed backstop of nursing home care for seniors is ripped away.

I have said from the beginning that when the Federal Government leads on flagship health reforms in Medicare and in its key programs, we know as sure as the night follows the day that the private sector is going to follow.

Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

We can help working families and seniors and the middle class get ahead.

I cannot imagine doing that or privatizing the systems, turning them over to Wall Street or private insurance companies.

We are going to be having a hearing next Thursday in this committee specifically on them.

When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of prescription drugs; and investing in…

Had I been present for rollcall No. 144, the vote today on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1093, I would have voted ``yea.'' Additionally, had I been present for rollcall No. 145, the vote on H.R. 1159, a bill to amend the…